Public Health Insight
The Public Health Insight Podcast is a weekly podcast ranked in the top 5% of all podcasts globally. The podcast covers all things public health and global health, from the sustainable development goals to the social determinants of health, as well as interesting dialogues about the diverse career opportunities that exist in the fields. Since its launch in March 2020, the podcast has featured more than 40 high-profile guests and has built an audience in more than 5,000 cities in over 190 countries.
Podcasting since 2020 • 284 episodes
Public Health Insight
Latest Episodes
The Chemistry Behind a Unique Public Health Career & the Whistleblowing That Risked It All
A curious 8-year-old with a love for chemistry grows up to investigate some of America's most dangerous disease outbreaks—then risks his entire career to speak truth to power.Dr. Don Weiss spent more than two decades as an epidemiologist...
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Why Science Is In Grave Danger & What You Can Do About It
The research that gave us COVID vaccines in record time, that's working on cancer cures, and that's preparing us for climate change is under unprecedented threat. Massive budget cuts are shutting down labs, halting breakthrough research, and di...
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The 11-Mile Drive That Revolutionized Science
In 1970, a young man, from a paper mill town in Pennsylvania, borrowed his roommate's car and drove 11 miles to see a new medical school. That casual drive would lead to one of the most widely used techniques in molecular biology and biomedical...
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The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion: A Forgotten Public Health Blueprint
The Ottawa Charter offered a bold idea: that health isn't just shaped in hospitals or clinics, but in the everyday decisions we make about policy, environments, education, and empowerment. Nearly four decades later, that idea feels more urgent ...
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The Aftermath of USAID Funding Cuts & a $150 Million Blow to Global Health’s Future
One morning in February 2025, EngenderHealth received the kind of email every global health leader dreads—three major USAID grants were gone. No warning. No appeal. Just: “not in the national interest.”In this episode of the Public Healt...
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Fan Mail
Hi Gorden Nice job on editing the podcast, it was a pleasure to work with you. Will there be a part 2, there was so much we talked about that there was not time for. Thanks, Jim Alwine
Norristown, Pennsylvania
